Subj : Not just BBS Support question To : claw From : Roon Date : Tue Aug 30 2022 09:22 am Hello claw, 27 Aug 22 11:05, you wrote to All: c> I'm not exactly sure how to explain my question so they and stick it c> out. c> The question is really more around Web Virtual hosts. It does pertain c> to my BBS, however it even more so to the Noverdu Network as a whole. c> I didn't see any Other Support forums so I'm posting it here. c> Hopefully Avon doesn't get irritated. c> First I love building servers and tinkering with them. As time has c> gone on I have found and played with a ton of different softwares. I c> have generally just created different ports. This works for me c> internally as I can easily remember them easily, however I constatnly c> get asked by my patrons which one was that port for again? I want to c> help them by using subdomains to redirect to virtual hosts. c> I know if you start out with this its not too hard to setup. However c> I didn't Here is my setup. The End goal would be to have a c> www.noverdu.com that can show what each of the services are and have c> links to them. c> nextcloud.noverdu.com:80 goes to my Nextcloud file and chat server. c> This generally is for a few of my friends and I to just share files c> and chat on. I used port 80 on this because its the one I want to c> make sure is easy to get to. c> noverdu.com:88 goes to my radio station. c> noverdu.com:808 goes to my BBS's ftelnet access. c> As time goes on I will want to add more to play around with. I c> realize how I need to learn and start using virtualhosting so I can c> separate the services easily and let everyone just use port 80 for c> everything. Its easier to remember www.noveru.com goes to Home page c> and radio.noverdu.com goes to radio and so on. instead of all the c> ports. I only have 1 IP address and eventhough its not technically c> static I have have the same IP for over 10 years and it even followed c> my though a move. c> I want to create a server just to be a webserver now so I can try and c> fix this spaghetti of a setup now. c> I want www.noverdu.com to be a new server on port 80 so I can have a c> place where everyone can go and be directed to the right server/port, c> however if someone comes in on nextcloud.noverdu.com I still want that c> to be directed at the server with that. system c> My setup... c> I have a Dell R815 Server with 64 cores and 192G of ram, running c> VMWare. I like keeping severs separate so if one has an issue it c> doesn't take down everything at once. c> I have an HP Micro Server handling just my PFSense so if I need to c> take down the big server and work on it we don't loose INTERNET. The c> hole family is in chaos if that happens :). c> I want to create www.noverdu.com now and unsure how to clean this up c> and go about it in a way that doesn't disrupt the network or addresses c> people are already using. c> end goal is to have www.noverdu.com:80 be able to have links to c> redirect to all the services. I still want nextcloud.noverdu.com:80 c> to keep its access on port 80. From what I have goggled you can do c> this with virtual hosting and a server running NGINIX or something c> like this to get the initial connection on port 80 and then redirect c> it where it belongs internally. on the network. Can this be done c> with apache as I am more familiar with that? c> I'm going to be done rambling now I'm sure a ton of you are like TLDR. c> Would be cool if someone can at least point me in the right direction. c> All the things I google looks like you need to start with the c> virtualhosting not add it. reverse proxy is what you're looking for. Regards, -- dp -=>> telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=- .... 11:16am up 26 days, 23:16:43, load: 74 processes, 275 threads. --- GoldED/2 1.1.4.7+EMX * Origin: Roon's BBS - Budapest, HUNGARY +36-1-4454412 (21:4/148) .